Paleo-Siberian languages

GPTKB entity

Statements (48)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf language family
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Paleosiberian_languages
gptkbp:class geographic grouping
not a genetic family
gptkbp:coinedBy gptkb:Russian_linguists
19th century
gptkbp:example gptkb:Ket
gptkb:Chukchi
gptkb:Yukaghir
gptkb:Itelmen
gptkb:Koryak
gptkb:Nivkh
gptkbp:feature small number of speakers
isolated languages
oral tradition dominant
pre-Turkic, pre-Tungusic, pre-Mongolic
spoken by indigenous peoples
subject to language shift to Russian
unrelated to each other
not part of Uralic, Altaic, or Indo-European families
gptkbp:glottologCode pale1254
gptkbp:hasLanguage gptkb:Chukotko-Kamchatkan
gptkb:Yukaghir
gptkb:Nivkh
Yeniseian
Ainu (sometimes included)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Paleo-Siberian languages
gptkbp:ISO639-3 qfa-pss
gptkbp:region gptkb:Russian_Far_East
gptkb:Northeast_Asia
gptkb:Siberia
gptkbp:relatedConcept gptkb:Yukaghir_people
gptkb:language
gptkb:Chukchi_people
gptkb:Koryak_people
gptkb:Ket_people
gptkb:Nivkh_people
gptkb:Siberian_languages
Indigenous peoples of Siberia
gptkbp:spokenIn gptkb:Russia
gptkb:Russian_Far_East
gptkb:Siberia
gptkbp:status endangered
many extinct
gptkbp:writingSystem Cyrillic (for some languages)
Latin (for some languages)
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Paleo-Siberian_peoples
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6